How many people actually use bitcoin in Canberra?

Once people acquire bitcoins, which are a purely digital currency, they can be kept in a digital wallet with smartphone apps and online accounts allowing people to transfer their bitcoins to others in payment of goods and services.
The owner of The Sly Fox cafe in O’Connor Pat Dillon, whose outdoor business was one of the first to embrace bitcoins in Canberra, said a small but reliable number of customers used bitcoins to purchase coffee.
“There are at least 15 people who’ve come through here and used it – mostly IT type people who are familiar with bitcoin,” he said.
“I’d say we average at least 2 bitcoin sales a week at the absolute minimum.”

This post was published at Canberra Times on September 3, 2014.